Labyrinth at St. Frances Cabrini Church

At St. Frances Cabrini Church in southeast Minneapolis, a permanent outdoor labyrinth serves the parish and the university neighborhood around it, walked on the church's program and by passersby. The Labyrinth Locator's record lists it as a 50-foot Chartres replica with a journal station for walkers, installed June 16, 2018.

Every labyrinth is a walking practice, not a puzzle: a single path winds to a center and back out, and the walk is done slowly, as prayer or meditation. The pattern descends from the medieval pavement labyrinth at Chartres, and the modern urban revival began in the 1990s when Lauren Artress brought replicas of that path to American congregations and public grounds through Veriditas and the Labyrinth Society, whose World-Wide Labyrinth Locator now catalogs thousands. There is no branching and no trick to the path; walkers of every religion and none use it.

Visiting

cabrinimn.org carries the site's own information and schedule.